Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-08-26
SOME MEN.

George Jones, of The New York Times, Is a
victim of hay fever.
Gen. o. O. Howard is lecturing at Cali
fornia seashore resorts on "Gen. Grant"
DR.. Flood has been appointed by the Vati.
can coadjutor to the Roman Catholic bishop
of Trinidad.
Two veterans of the Mexican war will be
In the next congress-Rice, of Minnesota, and
Hare, of Texas
Burne Blanc, who recently married Mrs
Riegel of Philadelphia, in Paris, is a dstin-
guished engineer.
Richard T. Booth, the temperance sdvo-
cate, has returned to Boston after bis tour
around the world.
Julius Chambers has become the editor of
Galignani's Messenger, which James Gordon
Bennett has bought
Rev. DR.. Nevin, of Rome, once Miss Cath
crime Wolfe's almoner and confidential ad-
wiser, is at Newport.
Robert Browning starts in few days for
the Engadine. He intends to remain in
Switzerland two months.
Ex-Governor Foster, of Ohio, is worth
s1,500,O00. He has made his money out of
coal and natural gas wells.
DR.. Torrey, of Boston, says he can tie the
marriage knot in eighty seconds, and claims
that it is the quickest work on record.
Paul Dana, of The New York Sun, is de-
scribed as very thin, tall young gentleman
with a very pronounced English accent.
Robert j. Burdette is already announced
among the speakers for the annual Baptist
conference at Indianapolis in November.
Herr Won Lade, the famous cultivator of
rare species of grapes at Gaisenheim, in
Rheingan, has just celebrated his 10th birth
day.
Wilkinson Bears, aged 81, is the oldest
Master Mason in Michigan. He lives at
Belleville and took the sublime degree in
1911.
James S. Richardson, of New Orleans, the
largest cotton planter in the world, has this
year IS, 900 acres in cotton and 1000 acres in
corn.
Rev. A. H. Young, Methodist minister of
Sutton Falls, Ont, has just been blessed by
an addition to his family of a fourth set of
twins
Gen. Longstreet lives in a farmhouse on
the summit of a ridge in north Georgia. His
fortune is small but comfortable. He is a
grape grower
Mayor John Boyd Thatcher, of Albany, N.
V, is an expert photographer, and amuses
himself by taking pictures of the various city
functionaries.
Paul Thumann, the painter, has resigned
his professorship IN the Berlin Academy of
Fine Arts, in order to gain more time for
creative work.
Thomas n Williams, ex-state superintend-
ent of public instruction in Delaware, has
been chosen president of Washington college,
Chestertown, Md.
William Pitt Kellogg now bends his mind
to angling and is at the Thousand Islands.
His hair has turned snow white, and so has
his long, dropping mustache.
Quong Tart, a Chinaman of Sydney, Aus
tralia, who married Mclean woman year
or so ago, has little daughter who has been
named Victoria Jubilee Tart
DR. George Macdonald is spending the sum-
mer in England, and is in unusually vigor-
Gus health. The British climate forces him
to make his winter home in Italy.
s. c. Bartlett, son of the president Of Dart
mouth college, will next fall become an in
structor in English in the American mission
airy training school in Kiota Japan.
John De Mier. of Allentown, Mo, claims tc
be the oldest volunteer fireman in the United
States. He joined Relief Company No 2, OF
Cincinnati, O., in 1925 He is now 50 years
of age.
DR. De Koninck, who had been pro. 'ssol
of organic chemistry in the Universi; OF
Liege since 1856, died recently. Several OF
xxo,-lyc ho i,aar t4ali pto '
and French.
John C. Comfort, of Harrisburg, Pa, ha:
secured the handouts worn by John Brow
when he was hanged at Charleston, Va, Dec
2, 1859 1t is said that Mr. Comfort pait
$500 for them.
Edison sends up from Llewellyn park every
night a small balloon held by wire. Tn,
balloon bears an electric light which, at til,
height Of 1000 feet or so, it is impossible t
distinguish from star,
Charles Sumner was especially fond O
chocolate creams, and held that as long a
he could eat candy his digestion was in excel
lent order He never smoked, and neve
tasted of whisky but once.
Two sons of the late leader of the Brahm'
Somaj, Keshub Chundar Sen, have arrive,
in England. The young men will proceed t.
Edinburgh where they intend to prosecuu
course of study at the university.
William Marshall, conductor of the frs
passenger train that ran between Albany an,
Schenectady. n. Y, i'll 1881, is vigorou
resident of the latter city. He is 81 years oil
and bids fair TO celebrate his centennial
p. Sintenis, the botanist, who went t
Porto Rico three years ago in the interest O
the Botanical Garden of Berlin, has returne
% that city with more than 100, 900 CAREFUL
prepared botanical specimens His colectio
/ of butterflies is also said to be remarkabl
complete.
Mr.. A S. Abel, founder and senior pre-
prietor of The Baltimore Sun, has complete
his slst year His birthday was sper
quietly at home in the company of his famil
and intimate friends, and he was the reciI
! iant of p,nnV conpra IN In tions in pe.sOn mn